There is no good in love controlled by the mind.

Abu Abbas Al-Muqrani said: “Love has more power over souls than minds.” But they said that because the mind restricts its possessor, and one of its descriptions of love is misguidance and confusion, and confusion is incompatible with reason. Reason brings you together, but confusion separates you. Joseph’s brothers said to Jacob, “You are in your old misguidance.” They want his confusion about Joseph’s love, and confusion divides and does not unite. This is why love was described as scattering, and it scatters the concerns of the lover in many faces. God Almighty said, “And scatters from them many men and women.” Likewise, His saying is “scattered in vain,” and the lover is in the same position as his beloved, so there is no control over him. In himself, he only governs what he gives him and commands him to do with the power of love ruling over his heart, and from his misguidance in his love, he imagines i

The first thing I remember regarding the descriptions of lovers is what Yunus bin Yahya bin Abi Al-Hasan Al-Hashemi Al-Abbasi Al-Qassar told us in Mecca, towards the Yemeni corner of the Holy Kaaba in the year five hundred and ninety-nine. He said: Ibn Abdul Baqi informed us, Ahmad bin Ahmad informed us, Ahmad bin Abdullah informed us. Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Jaafar told us, Abu Bakr al-Dinawari the interpreter told us in the year two hundred and eighty-eight, Muhammad bin Ahmad al-Shamshatti told us, he said, I heard Dhul-Nun saying that God has servants whose hearts He filled with the purity of His pure love and whose souls were filled with longing to see Him. So Glory be to Him whose souls long for Him and whose understanding is closest to Him and whose understanding is described to Him. Glory be to their chests, Glory be to them, their successor, their comforter, and the healer of their ailments. My God, their bodies were humbled to you, and to your increase their hands